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A California highway patrolman is defending himself in a false arrest case, stating that he was forced to issue uncalled-for tickets because officers are pressured by their superiors to hit a monthly quota of “enforcement contacts,” reports the...

CNN Human Behavior Analyst Dr. Wendy Walsh, who is white, may have exposed her own white privilege on Monday when she suggested to an activist that she understood “the black experience” because she had multiracial children. Alicia...

Police in Texas argued with a camera-carrying man for nearly a half hour over whether he must show identification before eventually letting him go. The entire incident, which happened outside a Sonic fast food restaurant in Austin, is captured...

A Texas town is heatedly debating what to do with a large sign on public property that reads, “Jesus Welcomes you to Hawkins,” with the town’s mayor this week stating if their sign comes down, so do all signs across the country...

Real estate mogul Donald Trump is expected to announce his intent to run for president in the 2016 election on Tuesday morning at a self-named skyscraper in New York City. The 69-year-old reality TV star has flirted with a presidential bid on...

Rachel Dolezal is not the first American to cause controversy by changing her race. John Howard Griffin, through the use of medication and ultraviolet rays, disguised himself as a black man in the segregation-era South to better understand the...

Five young Irish citizens were killed and at least eight other people were injured when an apartment balcony collapsed early on Tuesday in the Californian city of Berkeley, Ireland’s foreign minister said. Earlier, Berkeley Police...

After a successful soda tax was passed last year in Berkeley, California, copycat laws are being proposed across the US, often with the support of nutritionists, medical professionals and a majority of the voting public. On May 28, the Illinois...

In March, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v Burwell, a case that could broadly impact the functioning of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The central question in King v Burwell is whether the federal government may provide subsidies...

That students of color bear the brunt of the zero tolerance discipline policies in schools has been well-established. What is not so well known is that some school administrations are actually complicit in this act of racial disciplining....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A jury rejected a lawsuit filed by a white former TV anchor who said a local Fox station let black employees use a racial epithet with impunity but not white ones. Tom Burlington’s lawyer had argued Monday that a...

Jeb Bush jumped headlong into the presidential race, insisting “America deserves better” after eight years of Barack Obama, as the Republican seeks to win over voters skeptical of his political pedigree. Following a six-month...

The Taliban Tuesday warned the leader of the Islamic State group against waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan, after a string of defections and reported clashes with militants loyal to IS. The Middle Eastern group, also known by its...

A devastating earthquake that hit Nepal in April moved Mount Everest three centimetres (just over an inch) to the southwest, but did not change its height, according to Chinese research published on Tuesday. The 7.8-magnitude quake reversed the...